(Amsterdam, Netherlands) Tony’s Chocolonely is a Dutch chocolate manufacturer and seller founded in 2005 in Amsterdam. The company’s mission is not just to eliminate exploitation within its own operations, but to drive systemic change across the global cocoa industry. Teun van de Keuken, a Dutch journalist and activist (who adopted the English name “Tony”), founded and named the company following his often lonely efforts to expose inequality and abuse in chocolate production.
Tony’s purposefully sources cocoa from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, where more than 60 percent of the world’s cocoa is grown—and where some of the industry’s most serious labor and environmental challenges remain. In these two countries alone, over 1.5 million children are involved in cocoa-related child labor, and an estimated 30,000 people are victims of forced labor. Tens of thousands of hectares of tropical forest have also been cleared for cocoa production since 2019.
Tony’s Chocolonely commits 1 percent of its net revenue annually to the Chocolonely Foundation, supporting projects aimed at ending systemic exploitation in the cocoa supply chain.